Macro Evolution

As has been said often, macroevolution is microevolution plus time. Even better put by one of my friends, macroevolution equals microevolution plus microevolution plus microevolution...

Many people though still don't believe in macroevolution. This is for a variety of reasons. Much of the doubt is cast on a lack of sufficient time. Some believe the earth is only 10,000 years old. This is preposterous, so we'll leave this section be. Some just don't think that 4 billion years is long enough to produce what we see now. This can be dispelled with some ease.

Of all the species of dog we know now, the single ancestor is the wolf. From the Great Dane to the Pomeranian, there is but one ancestor. This transition, guided by humans, took only a few centuries. 4-5 at the most. Most people don't perceive the amount of time that is 4 billion years because it is just too wieldy. I can break down 4 billion years into 40 million centuries. This is still a bit unwieldy and many people cannot fathom that either, but work with me here. If a wolf can turn into a Pomeranian in 4-5 centuries, think of what the world could do with 40 million of them. Or even, if we can progress so much in one millenia,think of the progress we could have made with 4 million mellenia.

These numbers are still far too wieldy, as previously mentioned. Many people can't fathom a thousand, let alone a million. But take the dog example again. We could do that over 8 million times given 40 million centuries.

So obviously, the ability for macroevolution to happen is overwhelmingly easy. Many people when faced with this number though, just cannot fathom it to understand the possibility.